Bringing together a “broad spectrum of sectors”. In some industry news, the Entertainment Software Association (which operated E3) has this week announced it will be returning with a new event known as the Interactive Innovation Conference. This will apparently be a “first-of-its-kind” event taking place in Las Vegas between April 27th – April 30th, 2026…
Monster Hunter Wilds is set to feature a large number of monsters, both old and new, like the new “flagship” (aka scary) beast Arkveld, and the return of farting gorilla Congalala after almost 10 years. But only one monster can be your first prey, the one that basically volunteers for a whooping to show you…
Hasbro has announced that it’s partnering with Legendary Entertainment to make a live-action Magic: The Gathering movie, followed by a TV show, as a way of kicking off one of those cinematic universes everybody loves. (Via Nerdist.) Legendary Entertainment has co-produced movies like Batman Begins, Warcraft, and A Minecraft Movie, as well as TV shows…
There’s good news and bad news from Take-Two Interactive’s quarterly financial report: Grand Theft Auto 6 is still on track for release in the fall, and no, it’s still not announced for PC. This has been going on for a while now, as you very likely know: There was no mention of a PC release…
It’s a great week for going medieval. Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 crashed through Steam’s gates on Tuesday, and now here comes survival sandbox Rust with its Primitive update. It’s got swords, shields, bows and arrows, siege weapons, and a few mild anachronisms like jewel-encrusted assault rifles and electricity-powered autocrossbows. This is Rust, after all, and…
In a recent interview with the Wall Street Journal, legendary actor Harrison Ford again took the time to praise Troy Baker’s performance as Indiana Jones in MachineGames’ The Great Circle. Ford offered Baker’s performance as a counterpoint to interest in AI-generated digital actors trained on human artists’ past performances. “You don’t need artificial intelligence to…
Ubisoft is currently engaged in what we Brits would call a reverse-ferret: After years of releasing its games exclusively on the Epic Store, the publisher has returned to distributing them on Steam. The first game to mark a return to day one releases will be Assassin’s Creed Shadows on March 20, even if Ubisoft is…
We all have our vices, and mine is a loot pile. There are few sources of dopamine more potent than dealing a final blow to a fortuitous skeleton and being rewarded with a multi-colored geyser of greatswords, quivers, amulets, and greaves. But while Path of Exile 2 has been supplying me with a steady drip…
After a rough start that stuck it with a “mixed” user rating on Steam, Spider-Man 2 on PC finally has its first proper patch, with fixes for “several” crash issues and bugs, and a promise that “more bug fixes, improvements and performance optimizations” are on the way. Spider-Man 2 did not quite stick the landing…
Squeaker. A new patent filed by Nintendo seems to confirm that the Nintendo Switch 2’s Joy-Con will include mouse functionality. The patent was filed on 1st April 2023 and made public today, 6th February 2025 (thanks to reader Davis for sending this to us!). Sure, we’ve been pretty confident about mouse functionality given the number…